“In a world first, a baby has been born after being conceived through an IVF procedure largely completed by remotely operated robots…

The embryo was created using a process called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a type of in-vitro fertilization…

‘We have created a platform that has for the first time ever standardized ICSI,’ the paper’s co-author Alejandro Chavez-Badiola, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Conceivable, told Live Science. Standardization can help reduce human error in ICSI and thus reduce the chance of egg degeneration during the procedure, Chavez-Badiola said.

‘Performing ICSI for hundreds of eggs in a single day is an arduous task,’ noted Dr. Erkan Buyuk, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at RMA of New York, who wasn’t involved in the research.

‘Any technologic innovation that would cut down on this effort would be much appreciated in any embryology lab,’ Buyuk, who is also a clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told Live Science in an email.”

From Live Science.